Category: Pan-Asia

South and East Asia rubber news

Arlanxeo to shut down Nd-PBR plant in Singapore

One of the world’s largest producers of synthetic rubber and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, Arlanxeo is said to be closing its 140,000-tonne/year neodymium-based performance butadiene rubber (Nd-PBR) plant in Jurong Island, Singapore. In a statement to its customers, Arlanxeo says this is in…

MTPL begins production at greenfield tyre facility in Gujarat

India’s Mahansaria Tyres Private Limited (MTPL) will now commence commercial production at its US$100 million off-highway tyre manufacturing facility in Panoli, western Gujarat, after a virtual inauguration by Chairman Ashok Mahansaria. MTPL’s new, state-of-the-art facility, spread across 127 acres of…

IRSG predicts 12% decline in rubber demand in 2020

The Singapore-based Secretariat of the International Rubber Study Group (IRSG), which publishes data on production, consumption, trade and prices covering both natural rubber (NR) and synthetic rubber (SR), estimates a sharp decline in the global rubber demand by 12.6% year-on-year…

IRSG announces winners of photo competition

Singapore-based International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) has announced winners of its photo competition themed “Rubber is a Community”. It received 14 individual entries since February 2020 and was realised with the support of Rubber Trade Association of Singapore (RTAS) and Singapore International Chamber of…